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We hope that you enjoy your stay in your Stuart Virginia hotel. When you get the chance, stay in some of the famous, luxurious and/or historic hotels of your destinations. The Goldeneye Hotel (once the home of James Bond author Ian Fleming) in Jamaica's Oracabessa Bay, Raffles Hotel in Singapore where the Singapore Sling was invented in the hotel's Long Bar, the Waldorf Astoria Shanghai on the Bund, the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, Hotel La Mamounia in Marrakesh (Marrakech), the Polana Hotel in Maputo and the Chelsea Hotel in New York. are some of the world's most famous hotels.

Mysteries of the Great Dismal Swamp, including a spectral raft with two occupants, illuminated by a bottle of fireflies, on Lake Drummond (the occupants are the ghosts of a man who went mad with grief and that of his lover, whose spirit the man desperately sought in the swamp); George, the invisible ghost of Altavista Combined Middle and High School; the phantom boats of the Rappahannock River, including the Black Barge, a portent of Republican victory in the elections of Tappahannock and Essex County; spooky tales of the Inn at Willow Grove in Orange, haunted by ghostly foosteps and two Confederate soldiers who sit and converse under a tree; card playing pirates and ghostly victims of a Native American attack at Carter's Grove; the hatchet wielding Bunny Man (Bunnyman Ghost) of Colchester Overpass (Bunny Man Bridge) near Clifton; and spirits of the historic and very haunted Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach, including a phantom cat and a spectral former employee who tells people that there are ghosts on the higher floors, are among the true ghost stories, myths and legends of Virginia.

Lucy, a phantom in the Olde Towne Inn, Manassas, who has the power to levitate people; spooky goings on in the Martha Washington Inn and Spa, Abingdon, including Civil War bloodstains appearing on new carpets and a phantom woman seeking her lover; the Richmond Vampire, popularly (and perhaps unfairly) associated with the tomb of William Wortham Pool in Holywood Cemetery, Richmond; hauntings of Woodlawn Plantation, Mount Vernon, including the beautiful and fragrant ghost of Eleanor "Nelly" Custis (near the boxwood trees) and the well in the gift shop that may be a portal to another world; the magical waters of the underground Lost River below Natural Bridge, which make everyone who drinks from them return; the creation, by the Great Spirit, of the Natural Bridge over Cedar Creek, Rockbridge County, for the benefit of the Monacan tribe (their women and children escaped across the bridge while their menfolk were able to defend the narrow path from a larger number of Powhatan warriors); the Native American lovers who leapt to their deaths from Jump Mountain, near Lexington; and the hauntings of the Wayside Inn, Middletown, continuously serving its guests, living or spectral, since 1797, are other legendary tales of ghosts and haunted places in Virginia.

So you want to see America. Being familiar with the USA is as important in the modern Grand Tour as familiarity with Europe. Dallas, Fort Lauderdale, St Louis, Kansas City, Anchorage, Sitka, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Atlanta, Skagway, Indianapolis, Phoenix, Houston, San Francisco, San Diego, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, Juneau, Savannah, New York, Albuquerque, Atlantic City, Washington DC, Boston, Minneapolis, Detroit, Honolulu, Fairbanks, Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, New Orleans, Santa Fe, Corpus Christi and Philadelphia are among the most famous cities in the USA. Other American mainland sites that should not be missed if a visitor to America, or an American for that matter, is to be regarded as well travelled, include The Disney resorts, Mount Rushmore, Niagara Falls, Hawaiian volcanoes such as Mauna Loa, Yellowstone National Park, the Adirondacks, Glacier Bay National Park, Route 66, Native American nations such as the Navajo and the Hopi, Yosemite National Park, the Grand Canyon, the Appalachians, Bryce Canyon, the Okefenokee Swamp, the Arctic wilderness of Alaska, the wild west town of Tombstone, Mount McKinley and fabulous wildlife in Denali National Park, Mount Rainier National Park, the Florida Keys, rodeos, the plantations and bayous of the Mississippi Delta, the Ozarks, the beach at Waikiki in Hawaii, Marvellous scenery and sea life in Kenai Fjords National Park, the California coastline and the Everglades.

The United States of America are so enormous that even most Americans cannot "know" all of their own country. Even visiting every state would be a major undertaking. It is possible, however, to visit the iconic places known all over the world, especially through Hollywood movies. By the way, you will find other Camelopard tips, hints, anecdotes or warnings on other pages of the website.

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